Cattell, Raymond(Journal of Educational Psychology, 1963)
The theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence propounded 20 years ago by the author has since accumulated support. However, the crucial issue of whether 1 or 2 general factors subtend intellectual performances has ...
Delineates 2 kinds of clever students: the “converger”, who excels in objective tests, and the “diverger”, who excels in essay tests. A description of the intellectual abilities, attitudes, and personalities of a sample ...
Defines "groupthink" as a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups. A group dynamics approach to explain aspects of American ...
Frensch, Peter A; Sternberg, Robert J(Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence, 1989)
It has often been said . . . that expertise in a given domain actually hinders people's success in that domain / the goal of this chapter is to specify some of the conditions under which and reasons why experts are sometimes ...
Creativity is becoming increasingly important for all businesses as competition intensifies because to act creatively is the best and cheapest way to get added value out of existing resources and assets. In this book, the ...
Strategy at the Leading Edge features short reports on conferences, new research and experiments by academics, organizations and consuitaricles for all those involved in strategy and strategic management. Contributions ...
Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology ...
Furnham, Adrian; Jackson, Chris J; Miller, Tony(Personality and Individual Differences, 1999)
Just over two hundred telephone sales staff completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Extraversion was highly correlated both positively and negatively ...
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and ...
Ensley, Michael D; Pearce, Craig L(Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2001)
This paper presents a study of two samples of new venture top management teams from the
inc. 500. The research poses that shared strategic cognition is the outcome of group processes
that occur during the development of ...
Amabile, TM; Hadley, CM; Kramer, SJ(Harvard Business Review, 2002)
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of ...
People who show good performance in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks can also make errors. Theories of human error fail to fully explain when and why good performers err. Some theories would predict that these errors ...
Although its origins have been traced back much further, research in the area of learning style has been active for—at a conservative estimate—around four decades. During that period the intensity of activity has varied, ...
Gavetti, Giovanni; Levinthal, Daniel; Rivkin, Jan W(2005)
We examine how firms discover effective competitive positions in worlds that are both novel and complex. In such settings, neither rational deduction nor local search is likely to lead a firm to a successful array of ...
Purpose – Studies investigating intuition from a cultural and cross-cultural perspective have a long tradition in various disciplines but, due to the increased internationalization of business, an understanding of the ...